Writing tips

Why I write poetry

13 January 2010 by Andrew Motion

Poetry is at once a very primitive and a very subtle thing – an expression of our fundamental and passionate delight in rhythms, sounds and patterns, and also of our more sophisticated need for ingenuity. It is the form which puts us most deeply in touch with ourselves, which connects us with the wider world, and which also helps us prove our sense of the numinous.

Comments

I found this succinct, beautifully written statement very inspiring on a day when it felt as if doubts were getting the better of me. Thanks so very much.

sara bingham

25 April 2012

I found this succinct, beautifully written statement very inspiring on a day when it felt as if doubts were getting the better of me. Thanks so very much.

sara bingham

25 April 2012

As a poetry reader, I would add that these are the very reasons we read poetry, as well! Thanks A Motion!

tp

21 December 2011